Eaker Ira C (33 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. DJ VG (# written on front). 187pp + index. Dust jacket has three small internal repairs, not apparent from without. Size: Large Quarto.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg. Dust Jacket Condition: good. 4th 1980s reprint. 430 pages; b/w photos, maps, & facsimile illustrations; contents unmarked; slight lean to spine; chips & tears (some taped) to edges of dj. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. FAIR/WITH NO JACKET, 255 pp. Text has some mild staining and usual library treatments; has numerous b/w illustrations. Has library rebound green boards. Binding stitched and firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. This wonderful book traces the rapid development from the first flight in a balloon in 1783 to the lastest combat jet. The planes and weapons, the campaigns and battles are described and illustrated with over ninety superb colour photographs. Technical details are given on air to air and air to surface armament, anti-aircraft weapons and air tactics. These topics are brilliantly explained with over fourty five diagrams. This blue hardback is in reasonably good condition with normal wear and marks consistent with use and age. There is some wear to hardback edge and corners and some shelf-life wear. All 187 and index pages, text and illustrations are in good order. Dust jacket included. This is a large heavy book therefore the postage may increase from listed postage price depending on final destination. A really wonderful informative book perfect for any aircraft and Air Warfare enthusiasts or historians.…

hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Like New. First Edition; First Printing. Profusely illustrated. Foreword by Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker. ; Tight, clean and crisp. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. An excellent copy of the First Printing of the First Edition protected in a new Mylar cover. As New.…

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is worn at spine tips and corners with bumps at top corners, is lightly bumped and rubbed at top and bottom edges, and has a one inch tear at bottom front edge. 206 pages with index plus 35 illustrations. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First thus. Hardcover in dust jacket. First Robson Books reissue edition of the 1944 classic. Book and price-clipped dust jacket are in very good condition, generally crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. Many historic photographs throughout. Large 8vo. 242 pp. Including index. In protective Mylar.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Boards a bit stained, a bit smoky. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1942 Hard Cover. xiii, 299 pp. An excellent inspirational wartime reference on what to expect as a military aviator. CONTENTS: Part One: Orientation; Part Two: Career Details; Part Three: Air Warfare.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Names inside. Seam split at the front cover. Priority Mail is available on this item. No international shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. (1982) Original glazed pictorial boards, very bright and clean. Corners and spine ends a bit bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block. This volume reprints 5 issues of "Impact" Magazine. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos. Contents very nice.…

Ephemera. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Stapled binding is sound. Pages clean, slightly off-white. Wraps have light handling wear. Contents: Eaker, Air Chiefs Patrick and Fechet. The South African Air Force (A Short Official History). Test, The Hustler's Record. Morrow, The Prussian Army and the Aircraft Industry, 1909-14. The F-100 in Pictures. Henshaw, On Testing Spitfires, 1939-45. Whitley, Airways 1923. The Second Air Division Memorial. 11.25" tall; 60 pages.…

hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Like New. First Edition; First Printing. The book is in As New condition, clean, tight, and crisp with solid binding. A hint of very light shelf wear to dustjacket with a short closed tear to top, otherwise As New. An excellent copy that looks great in the new Mylar cover that now protects it. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. ; Foreword by Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. Illustrated with photographs.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Second Printing. Mass market paperback Original 1968 edition. Second printing from 1968 as stated on the copyright page. Very Good to Near Fine condition. Tight bright attractive copy with no markings to the book. Early edition with black and white photo section in center of book and wraparound cover painting of the city of Dresden aflame with an anti aircraft gun firing from the street. Photos on request. ; A Ballantine War Book.…

No Jacket. Octavo blue cloth boards, illus. endpapers (map), xv+265pp, illus., VG (moderate fading, scuffing and soiling to boards, light tanning within and to edges, lacks d/w).

Super octavo (NF) in d/w (VG+): all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 36 cm OCLC 7112378 Periodical ; Articles: Winged warfare -- New US Pursuit planes are fast, maneuverable, a definition of high- and low-altitude characteristics of Army, Nay fighters -- Parachute troops and air infantry are new US defense weapons -- Army Air Corps gets world's best bombers -- US and Great Britain gain in production race -- Navy trains 6,720 new pilots for fleet air arm -- British flying boat battles Nazi raiders -- America aids Britain with men and planes -- Japan has 3000 planes, all of them obsolete -- War art -- New German planes ; front cover detached ; back cover absent ; featured photos of P-40, P-39, 21-B Curtiss-Wright Interceptor-fighter, XF4U-1 Vought-Sikorsky, XF5F-1 Grumman Fighter, F2A-2 Brewster Fighter, F4F-3 Grumman Fighter, P-39 Lockhead Intercepter Pursuit, P-49 Vullee Vanguard, Bell Airacuda, YP-43 Republic Pursuit, B-18 Douglas, B-24 Consolidated, B-25 North American, B-26 Martin, Link Trainer, Short Sunderland flying boat, Martin Maryland 167-B4, Brewster Buffalo, Consolidated Model 32, Gruman Export Fighter G-36A, Focke-Wulf 187, Dornier Do. 215, Heinkel 111 bomber, Focke-Wulf Courier, Junkers Ju 87, Junnkers Ju 88, Messerschmitt Me. 109, Messerschmitt Me. 110, Curtiss-Wright XSB2C-1, FAIR. Magazine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Third Edition. Light blue cloth with gilt and dark blue lettering. Edges are sun faded/lightly soiled; Right book edge is rough-cut and lightly yo moderately soiled; Bottom corners are very lightly bumped; Maps on endpapers have some tanning and foxing/soiling mostly near gutters; book interior is clean and tight; illustrated in black-and-white; 8vo; 265 pages; indexed; illustrated; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper; front panel of dustjacket has heavy chipping at top edge, heavy rubbing along right fold edge and a large chip with closed tears and creasing at bottom edge; spine panel of dustjacket has a strip missing at lower and uupper edges; white rear panel of dustjacket is lightly to moderately soiled and the upper edge is torn off with a closed tear and lower edge has a small chip at lower left corner and a large chip, part of the lower spine chip; left edge of rear panel has some creasing inside rear flap of dustjacket is soiled; front flap of dustjacket has price intact.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Fifth Edition. Black cloth cover has lightly crushed caps, corners are bumped and rubbed but cover is clean, bright and in very good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are lightly toned, clean and in very good condition. B&W photographic frontispiece. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with gold and dark blue detailing. No DJ. Corners bumped, slight scuffs along edges. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 1941, stated first edition. 265 pages. All clean, lightly and evenly toned. Black and white plates featured throughout text, still glossy. Several more plates are tucked into the book, seemingly from a separate source but all featuring military aircraft and naval vessels. Small stamp from a former owner and a small piece of tape on front free endpaper, pages otherwise unmarked. Binding beginning to loosen slightly along center of pages. Overall tight and strong, uncracked. Please email with questions or to request photos. Note: if there is a photo beside this listing, it's a STOCK photo that ABE put there (for reasons that we cannot understand or control) and might not match this actual book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. private library liquidation previous owner stamp and inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. [432] pp. ; 28 cm. ; exhaustive collection of photographs (some rarely seen, from the Militaergeschichtliches Institut Freiburg and the Bundesarchiv Coblenz) and detailed maps cover the end of World War II ; red cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents : The end of the Greater German Reich -- The Road to Catastrophe -- The conquest of Germany -- The Division of Germany -- THe meeting on the Elbe and the division of Germany -- The German collapse in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, Czechoslovakia and Austria -- THe German collapse in Scandinavia -- THe red flag over the Reichs Chancellery -- THe war at sea in the Atlantic and the Baltic -- The War in the air over Germany -- The military victory of the allies -- The beginning of political tension between East and West -- Europe at the end of the Second World War -- The collapse of Japan's Co-Prosperity Sphere in S. E. Asia -- A God is defeated -- AMerica's attack on Japan's inner defences -- The recapture of Japanese-occupied East and South-East Asia -- Crucial battles in the Pacific -- US Air supremacy -- The fateful decision -- A god is vanquished -- The struggle against colonialism -- Asia at the end of the Second World War -- The consequences of the Second World War in Europe and Asia -- The Catastrophe in figures ; Large, thick volume ; VG. Book.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Page edges yellowed slightly. Otherwise good. New, revised and expanded edition. Soft cover.

hardcover. Condition: Collectible; Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. SIGNED and inscribed on front endpaper by Vern Haugland. The book is also signed by the President of the Eagle Squadron Association, Edwin Dale "Jessie" Taylor. Foreword by Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker. Illustrated with photographs. ; Tight binding, clean and crisp pages with very mild spotting to top edge, and a hint of light shelf wear with sunning to jacket spine, otherwise an excellent copy now protected in a new Mylar cover. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition. Octavo. Gift inscription on front fly, a bit of foxing on the cloth thus about very good in a worn about good dust jacket with some chips and several repaired tears.

Condition: Very Good. New revised and expanded edition in publisher's original illustrated stiff card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to. 11½'' x 8¼''. The world's greatest air museum of aeroplanes, missiles, and aviation exhibits, from the Wright Brothers to the then present day. Contains 216 printed pages with over 500 monochrome archive photographs throughout, descriptive text to each. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0517533588 AEROPLANES.…

1st edition dust jacket Nice Copy quarto 416pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., index, Comprehensive & well-illustrated.

Condition: fair to good, fair. First Edition. 265, illus., endpaper maps, index, some pencil notes to text, DJ worn & soiled: small tears, DJ in plastic sleeve.

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback How air power has changed the face of the world and what it means to our national security The First US Edition The pictorial dust jacket is a little worn especially to the extremities with fading to the spine Underneath lie blue cloth boards with a slight stain to the front with fading and a stain to the spine The pages are illustrated with several black and white photographic plates Overall a very good copy with the dust jacket and binding generally in good condition and the pages within clean pp xv 265 A well balanced and easily digestable book on the whole subject or air powernbsp. book.…